What do you call your whatchamacallit?

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Originally Posted by Grunt

Aren't we a little old to be giving parts of our anatomies names?

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Perhaps a little old ..... but deninately not mature enough :)

I call a jointer a jointer, unless I'm talking to someone other than myself, then I invariably think "jointer" but say "thicknesser". Probably just old age creeping in twenty years prematurely.

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Originally Posted by echnidna

Well then take it back

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We will if you will....its off to Sth Melbourne they go......

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Nah, the seppos call it a planer

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Nah, they're all jointers over here. i think the brits have got it right :eek: calling jointers planers and planers (in yank speak) thicknessers.

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Originally Posted by vsquizz

A Stanley No 7 has been called a jointer for a long long time. When I was an apprentice the old shipwrights called the powered version an electric jointer or just a jointer because they used it for exactly the same purpose they used a No 7....if that makes sense:confused: ...The guy at Timbecon always calls it a buzzer;) but it just doesn't sound right!...Its a jointer...................well thats just my three bobs worth anyway:o .....and I need a new one right away:D .....is she online tonight??


Cheers

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I call it a surface planer, shortened to surfacer, because it's purpose in life is to straighten and square timber that is twisted, sprung, bowed and generally screwed up before the timber is dressed for final use.
Jim

I said Jointer because that's whats on the machine - 6" Professional Jointer.

This thread has gone a little stale, must need a hijack!!!
hmmmm.

I call my whatchamacallit Willy :D :D

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Originally Posted by echnidna

This thread has gone a little stale, must need a hijack!!!
hmmmm.

I call my whatchamacallit Willy :D :D

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Is that a Willy Willy or a Silly Willy or a Willy Nilly? :D :D :D

Peter.

Get a grip....:D

G'day,

Have a 6" surface planer from my Grandad, my dad-in-law calls it a 6" buzzer - but then he says lAy-SIR (two distinct sylables with an emphasis on the sir) whereas we all say laser.

I'm right, he's wrong :D

Which started as an acronym but is now a word
Light
Amplification by
Stimulated
Emission of
Radiation

Lay Sur :D :D
And it's a GMC Jointer if it has one :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Iain

Which started as an acronym but is now a word
Light
Amplification by
Stimulated
Emission of
Radiation

Lay Sur :D :D
And it's a GMC Jointer if it has one :rolleyes:

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My GMC thicknesser musta bin old stock - it don't have a laser
:D :D

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Originally Posted by ryanarcher

Nah, they're all jointers over here. i think the brits have got it right :eek: calling jointers planers and planers (in yank speak) thicknessers.

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OK, I stand corrected. They call thicknessers 'planers'. Silly buggers :p

I've yet to meet anyone who calls them buzzers up here in NSW, so maybe that's a Mexican term? I must admit NSW is where I first came into contact with them. I picked 'jointer' up from a joinery here and it was what they called them at another place I worked in Sydney. After that it just stuck.

G'day SilenC,

Don't you know Mexico is south of the Qld border? Not south of the NSW border. Down here in Vic I call it Antartica because it's so damn cold. My Dad-in-law is a Yit, Cockroach or Mexican - call him what you will. Me, I'm a Qldr by birth.